meto
See also: Meto and Měto
Catalan
Verb
meto
- first-person singular present indicative form of metre
Esperanto
Etymology
From meti + -o.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmeto]
- Rhymes: -eto
- Hyphenation: me‧to
Noun
meto (uncountable, accusative meton)
- placement
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *meteō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. The perfect messuī for the expected *messī is through analogy from its antonym seruī.
Cognate with Welsh medi (“to reap”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to reap corn”) and ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”), Lithuanian mèsti and métyti (“to throw”), Russian мести́ (mestí, “to sweep”) and метáть (metátʹ, “to throw; pile up hay”), English mow and meadow.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.toː/, [ˈmɛt̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.to/, [ˈmɛːt̪o]
Verb
metō (present infinitive metere, perfect active messuī, supine messum); third conjugation
- I reap, harvest.
- Synonym: dēsecō
- I cut, crop or snip off.
- I cut through, sever.
- I mow down, cut down (in battle).
- Tertullianus, Apologeticus, 50.13
- Plūrēs efficimur, quotiēs metimur ā vōbīs; sēmen est sanguis chrīstiānōrum.
- We multiply whenever we are cut down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.
- Plūrēs efficimur, quotiēs metimur ā vōbīs; sēmen est sanguis chrīstiānōrum.
- Tertullianus, Apologeticus, 50.13
Conjugation
Not to be confused with the deponent verb mētor, with which the passive forms overlap.
| Conjugation of metō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | metō | metis | metit | metimus | metitis | metunt |
| imperfect | metēbam | metēbās | metēbat | metēbāmus | metēbātis | metēbant | |
| future | metam | metēs | metet | metēmus | metētis | metent | |
| perfect | messuī | messuistī | messuit | messuimus | messuistis | messuērunt, messuēre | |
| pluperfect | messueram | messuerās | messuerat | messuerāmus | messuerātis | messuerant | |
| future perfect | messuerō | messueris | messuerit | messuerimus | messueritis | messuerint | |
| passive | present | metor | meteris, metere | metitur | metimur | metiminī | metuntur |
| imperfect | metēbar | metēbāris, metēbāre | metēbātur | metēbāmur | metēbāminī | metēbantur | |
| future | metar | metēris, metēre | metētur | metēmur | metēminī | metentur | |
| perfect | messus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | messus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | messus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | metam | metās | metat | metāmus | metātis | metant |
| imperfect | meterem | meterēs | meteret | meterēmus | meterētis | meterent | |
| perfect | messuerim | messuerīs | messuerit | messuerīmus | messuerītis | messuerint | |
| pluperfect | messuissem | messuissēs | messuisset | messuissēmus | messuissētis | messuissent | |
| passive | present | metar | metāris, metāre | metātur | metāmur | metāminī | metantur |
| imperfect | meterer | meterēris, meterēre | meterētur | meterēmur | meterēminī | meterentur | |
| perfect | messus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | messus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | mete | — | — | metite | — |
| future | — | metitō | metitō | — | metitōte | metuntō | |
| passive | present | — | metere | — | — | metiminī | — |
| future | — | metitor | metitor | — | — | metuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | metere | messuisse | messūrum esse | metī | messum esse | messum īrī | |
| participles | metēns | — | messūrus | — | messus | metendus, metundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| metendī | metendō | metendum | metendō | messum | messū | ||
Derived terms
- dēmetō
- ēmetō
- messiō
- messis
- messor
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: mietere
- Neapolitan: méte
- Sicilian: mètiri
- Padanian:
- Emilian: mèder
- Lombard: meder
- Piedmontese: meje
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: miére
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Auvergnat: medre
References
- “meto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- meto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)
- as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.tɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɛtɔ
- Syllabification: me‧to
Noun
meto
- vocative singular of meta
Portuguese
Verb
meto
- first-person singular present indicative of meter
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeto/ [ˈme.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -eto
- Syllabification: me‧to
Verb
meto
- first-person singular present indicative of meter